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Juz’ 4 of a Mamluk Qur’an

Title	Juz’ 4 of a Mamluk Qur’an
Author	Cairo
Publication Date:	1370-1375
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	263 mm x 201 mm x 20 mm (height x width x depth)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Is 1464
Library Location	Islamic Collection
Date	1370-1375
Notes	Juz’ 4 of a Mamluk Qur’an. Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, blind-tooled leather bookbinding, 37 folios, Arabic text in rayhan, thuluth and eastern kufic scripts, with illuminated double frontispiece (fols. 1v-2r), opening page (chahar-lawh, fols. 2v-3r), sura heading (fol. 27v), marginal markers and verse counters throughout, Juz’ 4 of the Qur’an (Suras 3:92 – 4.23, with gaps), from a 30-volume set possibly commissioned for Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Sha`bān (r. 1363-1377) or his mother Khawand Baraka (d. 1373), illumination attributed to Ibrāhīm al-`Āmidī, calligraphy attributed to `Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Muktib al-Ashrafī, unsigned, Cairo, Egypt, c. 1370-1375.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold, Leather (material)
Nesne Adı	Codex, Qur'an
Yazı Tipi	Rayhan script, Thuluth script, Eastern Kufic script

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Juz’ 4 of a Mamluk Qur’an

Author Cairo

Publication Date 1370-1375

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 263 mm x 201 mm x 20 mm (height x width x depth)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Is 1464

Library Location Islamic Collection

Date 1370-1375

Notes Juz’ 4 of a Mamluk Qur’an. Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, blind-tooled leather bookbinding, 37 folios, Arabic text in rayhan, thuluth and eastern kufic scripts, with illuminated double frontispiece (fols. 1v-2r), opening page (chahar-lawh, fols. 2v-3r), sura heading (fol. 27v), marginal markers and verse counters throughout, Juz’ 4 of the Qur’an (Suras 3:92 – 4.23, with gaps), from a 30-volume set possibly commissioned for Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Sha`bān (r. 1363-1377) or his mother Khawand Baraka (d. 1373), illumination attributed to Ibrāhīm al-`Āmidī, calligraphy attributed to `Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Muktib al-Ashrafī, unsigned, Cairo, Egypt, c. 1370-1375.

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold, Leather (material)

Nesne Adı Codex, Qur'an

Yazı Tipi Rayhan script, Thuluth script, Eastern Kufic script